Delicate Nature Quotes

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Never look a tulip in the eye.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.